As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.